My Tranny Teardown

[sleepydsm]

Tonight I finally took up the task of tearing down my broken 1992 AWD manual tranny. As some of you may recall, the tranny seemed to lock up, i couldnt go into gear, the clutch disk was destroyed.
I have to say tearing down the tranny was extremely easy. The only challanges I came across was getting my viscous coupler off (it was on there really good), getting the 3-4shift fork/input shaft off, and the center diff took a little bit of effort.
So what happened with my tranny? A very small pin that holds a shaft in my front differential broke, which cause that shaft to drop down enough to let the broken pin out. That pin got caught in the front diff's gear teeth which then put a small crack in the case. That crack let all the fluid go, which cause the tranny (I assume the bearing) to overheat and seize up. That then cause the center shaft (with a big nut, next to the VC) to have the end gear right where the nut threads on twist off. All because of a little pin breaking.
Once I saw the shims, I visually understood them. Also, everthing in the tranny looked great! Aside from one fucked bearing and a magnut covered in gobs of metal mush, and mushy deposits of metal all around the case. I also seem to be missing one of the two oil guides.
I had a blast tearing it apart!

This actually looks repairable...

-Kevin Swalchick